IntroWebGraphics.png (35161 bytes)

Comparison of  web graphic file formats in terms of  file size and image quality for two types of images, photographs and line drawings.

Photograph saved as JPG, gif and png formats. 

The original photo (Taken by me during a scuba diving trip in Cozumel, Mexico.)  was scanned as a TIFF file and required 5,089,448 bytes of storage.  The image size is for the full sized version of the picture, not the thumbnails.   As a matter of fact the thumbnails for all the JPG pics range from 3,169 to 3,183 bytes.  The gif thumbnail is 12,210 bytes.

Image Type Resolution Image Size Click on the image to view
JPEG medium 69,843 bytes BestFishPic98th.jpg (69846 bytes)
JPEG low 50,418 BestFishPic98thlowres.jpg (50418 bytes)
JPEG high 118,723 BestFishPic98thhigres.jpg (118723 bytes)
JPEG max 204,049 BestFishPic98thmaxres.jpg (204049 bytes)
gif   908,494 BestFishPic98th.gif (908494 bytes)
png   1,027,512 BestFishPic98th.png (1027512 bytes)

 

Drawing saved as a  jpg, gif and png:

House as jpg is:  2621 bytes

House as gif file is: 1512 bytes

House as png is: 730 bytes

MyHouse.jpg (2621 bytes)

MyHouse.gif (1512 bytes)

  MyHouse.png (730 bytes)

 

        

Last updated on 02/11/2003 by L.M. Hicks